Amanda Cierra Chavis

@amanda-cierra-chavis

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@kate-morrison Hi Kate! My name is Amanda. I am a junior but this is my first semester in FOX, majoring in MIS, as I transferred in from CST. I noticed that you have a Digital Marketing minor. I have a minor outside of FOX, but I was also thinking about adding Digital Marketing as a minor. I assume that you have taken a few courses within […] View

@kate-morrison Hi Kate! My name is Amanda. I am a junior but this is my first semester in FOX, majoring in MIS, as I transferred in from CST. I noticed that you have a Digital Marketing minor. I have a minor outside of FOX, but I was also thinking about adding Digital Marketing as a minor. I assume that you have taken a few courses within the…[Read more]

Hi everyone! My name is Amanda Chavis. I actually just switched into FOX majoring in MIS. I was previously a student in CST, studying Information Science & Technology (IS&T). IS&T and MIS are very similar majors but I ultimately made the switch to MIS because I am interested more so in how technology works with its users. I also knew that in…[Read more]

If I were to explain this course to a future student, I would tell them that throughout the duration of this course, you learn all about data, its use(s), and how to use it yourself; it really is about data analytics. You learn about what data is, how it can be generated, and where all it comes from. You get to see how other companies use data…[Read more]

One data-driven service that I use a lot is Tidal; it’s a music provider like Spotify. It stores all types of music and the tons of metadata that comes with each song. If I put this data in a spreadsheet, some columns would be the artist’s name, the release year of the piece of music, the record company it was released under, and the duration of…[Read more]

When I was younger, I went to my pediatrician to get my blood tested for diabetes simply because it runs in my family, on both my mother’s and father’s side. I remember her telling me the number of calories I should eat in a day to be at the correct weight for my age and height. When I read this article, it made me question how correct the daily…[Read more]

I am not sure if this is a good example because one of the articles was king of disputing it, but I actually have a fitbit and I have set my goal to be 8,000 steps a day to help promote more activity in my daily life. This fits the SMART criteria because the specific purpose of it is to get me to be more active. It is measurable as the fitbit…[Read more]

I have definitely made some of the mistakes listed in the article. Two of the biggest ones I always seem to do (and then later figure it out and correct myself) are #7, Put values in fields that are supposed to be pointers or references and #9, Copy formulas that use relative coordinates. These are simple mistakes but they can lead to annoying…[Read more]

I found an article commenting on hacker’s attempts in light of the election approaching. I always thought hacking was extremely cool; but knew that there were different types of hackers-in this case it is the black hat, malicious hackers. Nonetheless, Homeland Security said that there had been hacking attempts in a few states, but they had not…[Read more]

I believe that ‘Ask Why’ and ‘Be Skeptical’ go hand in hand and I think these are the most important of the eight principles. Once you have organized your data, it still may not mean as much unless you continue to be analytical about it. You have to continue asking questions based on the data, including asking why. Being skeptical and asking…[Read more]

The most important take away from Mr. Maurice Whetstone’s talk is basically that Data plays a role in everything they do at QVC; I feel like QVC would not be what it is without data and the organization of data. They use their data at QVC to make decisions about what to put on air, when to put it on and for how long. Mr. Whetstone talked about h…[Read more]

My article gives a really quick over view of Google’s new marketing analytics and data products in their comprehensive suite called “Google Analytics 360 Suite”. I found this interesting because 1) I love Google and everyone knows that Google is on top of…[Read more]

I could possibly test this by doing a background check on all the “strangers” that stop by either one kid on their walk to school -or- one could just do all the “strangers” that walk by a school. From the background check you could see who is potentially “good” or “bad”